Business Analysis Contracts

Business Analysis
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Business Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Business Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 100 94
Rank change year-on-year -19 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Business Analysis 832 1,460 2,451
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.92% 2.44% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 2.72% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 574 1,033 1,782
10th Percentile £388 £400 £391
25th Percentile £430 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +2.44% +7.89%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £600
90th Percentile £700 £775 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 7
10th Percentile £18.35 £35.00 £31.50
25th Percentile £19.60 £39.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £59.00 £62.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +17.92% +100.15%
75th Percentile £82.81 £66.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.50 £70.00 £66.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.13 £66.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -45.26% +37.50% +100.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Business Analysis is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Business Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Business Analysis as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis.

Daily rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Business Analysis.

Hourly rate trend for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Business Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Business Analysis in the UK

Business Analysis
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Business Analysis within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 684 £540 -0.92% 270
London -18 396 £570 -2.98% 134
Work from Home +13 352 £538 +2.38% 101
UK excluding London -22 349 £475 - 150
North of England +5 86 £475 - 30
Scotland +5 80 £450 +4.65% 12
South East -21 68 £525 +10.53% 37
North West +1 54 £475 - 18
Midlands -14 54 £475 -3.06% 32
South West -3 34 £575 +4.55% 19
West Midlands -21 29 £475 -5.00% 24
Yorkshire +2 27 £490 -2.00% 9
East of England +6 26 £428 -14.50% 17
East Midlands +26 24 £450 -2.70% 8
North East +22 4 £375 -6.25% 3
Wales +1 3 £513 +7.89% 5
Northern Ireland +2 1 £335 -45.97% 3
Isle of Man - 1 £475 -

Business Analysis
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 28 (3.37%) Confluence
2 11 (1.32%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (0.36%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.36%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.36%) CMS
5 2 (0.24%) Apache
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.12%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.12%) SAS
6 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 46 (5.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.09%) MS Visio
3 33 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
4 24 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.12%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (3.37%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.80%) SAP PM
3 13 (1.56%) Aligne
4 10 (1.20%) Endur
5 7 (0.84%) Magento
6 6 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.72%) SAP Hybris
7 5 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
8 4 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.48%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.36%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 3 (0.36%) SAP BPC
9 3 (0.36%) SAP CO
9 3 (0.36%) SAP FI
9 3 (0.36%) SAP FI/CO
9 3 (0.36%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Cash Management
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 70 (8.41%) Azure
2 40 (4.81%) AWS
3 37 (4.45%) Power Platform
4 28 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (3.37%) SaaS
5 25 (3.00%) Microsoft 365
6 16 (1.92%) Serverless
7 14 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (1.56%) PaaS
9 10 (1.20%) Power Automate
10 9 (1.08%) PowerApps
11 8 (0.96%) Azure Functions
11 8 (0.96%) Azure Service Bus
11 8 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (0.84%) Adobe Analytics
12 7 (0.84%) SAP Commerce Cloud
13 6 (0.72%) Azure API Management
13 6 (0.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (0.60%) Azure Batch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.72%) FIX Connectivity
1 6 (0.72%) WAN
2 5 (0.60%) Firewall
2 5 (0.60%) SDH
2 5 (0.60%) SSH
3 4 (0.48%) Junos
4 3 (0.36%) Intranet
4 3 (0.36%) PBX
4 3 (0.36%) Skype
4 3 (0.36%) VoIP
5 2 (0.24%) Network Security
5 2 (0.24%) SMS
5 2 (0.24%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) Broadband
6 1 (0.12%) HTTP
6 1 (0.12%) Internet
6 1 (0.12%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) MPLS
6 1 (0.12%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (3.49%) Power BI
2 16 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (1.32%) Big Data
4 10 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 9 (1.08%) SAP HANA
5 9 (1.08%) SQL Server
6 8 (0.96%) Relational Database
7 7 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (0.72%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.72%) Tableau
9 5 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 5 (0.60%) OLTP
10 4 (0.48%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.36%) Apache Hive
11 3 (0.36%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.36%) GIS
11 3 (0.36%) Impala
11 3 (0.36%) Presto
11 3 (0.36%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 51 (6.13%) JIRA
2 8 (0.96%) Git
3 7 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (0.72%) Visual Studio Team System
5 5 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 5 (0.60%) JUnit
6 4 (0.48%) Eclipse
6 4 (0.48%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.24%) Moq
7 2 (0.24%) NUnit
8 1 (0.12%) Balsamiq
8 1 (0.12%) GitLab
8 1 (0.12%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 316 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 242 (29.09%) Finance
3 182 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (13.58%) Public Sector
5 72 (8.65%) Banking
6 68 (8.17%) Presentation Skills
7 46 (5.53%) Influencing Skills
8 38 (4.57%) Manufacturing
9 35 (4.21%) Retail
10 26 (3.13%) Front Office
11 25 (3.00%) Investment Banking
11 25 (3.00%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.52%) Legal
13 20 (2.40%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
15 15 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.80%) Law
15 15 (1.80%) Marketing
16 13 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 500 (60.10%) Analyst
2 449 (53.97%) Business Analyst
3 76 (9.13%) Senior
4 67 (8.05%) Project Manager
5 60 (7.21%) Architect
5 60 (7.21%) Senior Analyst
6 54 (6.49%) Senior Business Analyst
7 39 (4.69%) Lead
8 38 (4.57%) Financial Analyst
9 37 (4.45%) Consultant
10 33 (3.97%) Developer
11 30 (3.61%) IT Analyst
12 29 (3.49%) Finance Business Analyst
13 28 (3.37%) Business IT Analyst
14 27 (3.25%) IT Business Analyst
15 25 (3.00%) SAP Analyst
16 22 (2.64%) Technical Analyst
16 22 (2.64%) Technical Business Analyst
17 20 (2.40%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
17 20 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.40%) XML
2 19 (2.28%) .NET
3 17 (2.04%) JSON
3 17 (2.04%) Web Services
4 10 (1.20%) HTML
5 9 (1.08%) CSS
5 9 (1.08%) WPF
6 7 (0.84%) REST
7 6 (0.72%) FIX Protocol
7 6 (0.72%) J2EE
8 5 (0.60%) .NET Framework
8 5 (0.60%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.60%) Hibernate
8 5 (0.60%) JPA
8 5 (0.60%) SailPoint
8 5 (0.60%) SOAP
8 5 (0.60%) Spring
9 4 (0.48%) ADO
9 4 (0.48%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (0.48%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 55 (6.61%) Product Ownership
2 47 (5.65%) Management Information System
3 18 (2.16%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (1.56%) Virtual Team
6 12 (1.44%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (1.20%) CMDB
9 9 (1.08%) IoT
9 9 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
9 9 (1.08%) Solar Panel
10 8 (0.96%) NHS
10 8 (0.96%) Reinsurance
11 7 (0.84%) Cloud Native
11 7 (0.84%) Derivative
11 7 (0.84%) PMI
11 7 (0.84%) Wiki
12 6 (0.72%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.32%) Unix
2 10 (1.20%) Apple iOS
3 6 (0.72%) Linux
4 2 (0.24%) Android
5 1 (0.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 293 (35.22%) Agile
2 201 (24.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 196 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (20.55%) Project Management
5 150 (18.03%) User Stories
6 147 (17.67%) Requirements Gathering
7 97 (11.66%) Scrum
8 95 (11.42%) Acceptance Criteria
8 95 (11.42%) Change Management
9 87 (10.46%) Project Delivery
9 87 (10.46%) Roadmaps
10 84 (10.10%) Workshop Facilitation
11 76 (9.13%) Migration
12 74 (8.89%) Data Analysis
13 73 (8.77%) User Acceptance Testing
14 70 (8.41%) Business Case
15 65 (7.81%) Decision-Making
16 64 (7.69%) Analytics
17 58 (6.97%) DevOps
18 57 (6.85%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 58 (6.97%) SQL
2 23 (2.76%) C#
3 22 (2.64%) Java
4 21 (2.52%) Python
5 16 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 9 (1.08%) Perl
7 8 (0.96%) Swift
8 6 (0.72%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.36%) VBA
10 2 (0.24%) Lua
10 2 (0.24%) PHP
10 2 (0.24%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.24%) Scala
11 1 (0.12%) Bash
11 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 133 (15.99%) Degree
2 108 (12.98%) Security Cleared
3 83 (9.98%) SC Cleared
4 18 (2.16%) CBAP
4 18 (2.16%) DV Cleared
5 16 (1.92%) IIBA
6 10 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 9 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 8 (0.96%) APMP
9 7 (0.84%) CCNP
9 7 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (0.84%) HND
9 7 (0.84%) ISEB
9 7 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (0.84%) SAP Certification
9 7 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.60%) ACCA
11 5 (0.60%) CIMA
11 5 (0.60%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (6.37%) QA
2 17 (2.04%) GDPR
3 15 (1.80%) GxP
4 12 (1.44%) Data Quality
4 12 (1.44%) Good Clinical Practice
5 11 (1.32%) PMO
6 10 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
7 7 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.72%) EMIR
9 5 (0.60%) SEPA
9 5 (0.60%) SLA
10 4 (0.48%) IFRS
10 4 (0.48%) MiFID
10 4 (0.48%) NIST
10 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.36%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.36%) GRC
11 3 (0.36%) IFRS 17
11 3 (0.36%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 5 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.24%) HDFS
3 1 (0.12%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (1.08%) Terraform
2 2 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 87 (10.46%) Microsoft
2 77 (9.25%) SAP
3 31 (3.73%) Oracle
4 30 (3.61%) ServiceNow
5 17 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 10 (1.20%) Adobe
7 9 (1.08%) Cadence
7 9 (1.08%) Juniper
8 8 (0.96%) Bloomberg
8 8 (0.96%) Cisco
8 8 (0.96%) Okta
9 7 (0.84%) IBM
9 7 (0.84%) Nokia
10 6 (0.72%) Google
10 6 (0.72%) ION Trading
10 6 (0.72%) VMware
11 5 (0.60%) Ariba
11 5 (0.60%) Hyperion
11 5 (0.60%) MarketAxess
11 5 (0.60%) Tradeweb